Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare is inviting companies to bid by 8 December for a contract to build roads and infrastructure networks for the residential plots and electrical substations for the northern section of South Al-Mutlaa City.

International companies prequalified to bid for the contract include:

• Sinohydro Corporation (China)
• China State Construction Engineering Corporation (China)
• China Railway 18^th Bureau Group (China)
• Sinohydro Corporation (China)
• China State Construction Engineering Corporation (China)
• China Railway 18^th Bureau Group (China)
• China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (China)
• China Railway International Group (China)
• China Camc Engineering (China)
• China Gezhouba Group (China)
• Cengiz Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret (Turkey)
• Cooperativa Muratori and Cementisti CMC Ravenna (Italy)
• Daewoo Engineering & Construction (South Korea)
• El-Seif Engineering Contracting Company (Saudi Arabia)
• Ghantoot Transport and General Contracting (UAE)
• Hanwha Engineering & Construction Corporation (South Korea)
• Itinera SPA (Italy)
• Larsen & Toubro (India)
• Polat Yol Yapi Sanayi ve Ticaret (Turkey)
• Sacyr Construction (Spain)
• Societa Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua (Italy)
• Strabag International (Austria)

These companies are expected to present a proof of the existence of a local agent or partner when they submit their offers.

South Al-Mutlaa City will be located in Kuwait’s Jahra governorate, to the west of the capital Kuwait City.

Once completed in 2019, the development will have 30,000 housing units, with its population projected to reach 400,000. This would comprise about 9 per cent of the state’s projected population of nearly 4.6 million by 2019, based on the Washington-based IMF’s population forecast data.